Hawaii-1969: Grass-Skirted Dancer Twirls a Tahitian-Style Solo Before a Thatched Hut

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationHawaii, United States
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 · Hawaii, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

Polynesian dance
Hawaii tourism
cultural performance
vacation travel
1960s leisure
costume and adornment
home movie memory

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Seaside lawn performance area with a thatched hut, palm trunks and ocean beyond a low wall
Time and weather: day · bright, overcast-looking sky
Lighting: Flat natural daylight with soft shadows
People: 10 · One young woman dancing in a grass skirt, flower crown and lei; several seated performers in floral muumuus and leis in the background, some wearing hats
Objects: grass skirt · flower crown · orange lei · printed top · fiber hand tassels · thatched hut · calabash gourds · microphone stand · log drum · palm trunks
Colors: straw yellow · faded green · lavender · orange
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The dancer raises both arms in front of the thatched hut.
She spins and her grass skirt flares out.
With her back to the camera, she sways and lifts fiber tassels overhead.
She turns to face the camera, smiling, arms outstretched.
A light flare passes as she dances in front of the seated performers.

Grass-Skirted Dancer Twirls a Tahitian-Style Solo Before... — Clip Details

Probably Hawaii, circa 1969 home movie footage of a young woman dancing a Tahitian-style solo on a seaside lawn. She wears a long grass skirt, a flower crown, a double orange lei and a printed top, and holds fiber tassels as she spins, raises her arms and sways her hips. Behind her stand a grass-thatched hut, gourds, palm trunks and seated performers in floral dress, with the ocean beyond a low wall. A handheld camera follows her in one continuous shot.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002193

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1969 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Hawaii, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip suits requests for late-1960s Hawaii tourist entertainment, such as a visitor-filmed Polynesian dance show for documentaries on island tourism or Pacific performance.
Period detail: The muumuus, leis and staged thatched-hut set, and the faded color of the film, may show a tourist hula show of the late 1960s.
Home-movie behavior: The film is shot from the audience by a visiting family and follows the dancer the way a tourist with a camera would, not with a production crew's planned framing.
What appears in frame: A dancer in a grass skirt and flower crown, a double orange lei, a thatched hut with a dark doorway, calabash gourds by the palms, seated performers in floral dress and a glimpse of the sea.
Film character: Faded magenta-lavender color, soft focus, fine grain, a dark patch on the lawn and a brief flare near the end give the clip the worn texture of projected home-movie film.
Edit role: Use it as a lively cutaway or memory beat inside a Hawaii vacation sequence, or as an insert after wider shots of the hula show crowd.
Historical context: Shows like this one presented Polynesian dance to visitors on beachfront lawns, and the setting resembles Waikiki's long-running Kodak Hula Show, though this venue is not identified.
Research note: Copyright in the film itself is separate from rights in people shown; the dancer and performers are identifiable but unnamed, so likeness and performance permissions should be weighed for commercial use, and the venue is unconfirmed.
Research search match: Researchers may find it under vintage Hawaii hula show, 1960s grass skirt dancer, Tahitian dance home movie, or Polynesian show tourist footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's group hula with musicians, solo hula in holoku dress, seated pu'ili stick hula and feather-gourd dancer clips, then with other Honolulu views from the same trip, then with other Polynesian dance footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Tahitian-style dancer raising both arms before a thatched hut at a seaside hula show, probably Hawaii, circa 1969 — A dancer in a grass skirt and flower crown opens her solo with arms raised; seated performers watch from the background.
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Back view of a grass-skirted dancer swinging fiber tassels at an outdoor Polynesian show, probably Hawaii, circa 1969 — With her back to the camera, the dancer swings fiber tassels out to each side as her skirt sways.
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Smiling hula dancer in orange lei and grass skirt mid-move on a lawn before a thatched hut, probably Hawaii, circa 1969 — Turning back to the camera, the dancer smiles with one arm raised and the other held out.
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Grass-skirted dancer before seated performers in muumuus by the sea at a tourist hula show, probably Hawaii, circa 1969 — Seated performers in floral muumuus, a log drum and the sea are behind the dancer near the end of the shot.
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